EP1470001B1 - Sicherheitselement mit Farbkippeffekt und magnetischen Eigenschaften sowie Verfahren zur Herstellung - Google Patents

Sicherheitselement mit Farbkippeffekt und magnetischen Eigenschaften sowie Verfahren zur Herstellung Download PDF

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EP1470001B1
EP1470001B1 EP03708064A EP03708064A EP1470001B1 EP 1470001 B1 EP1470001 B1 EP 1470001B1 EP 03708064 A EP03708064 A EP 03708064A EP 03708064 A EP03708064 A EP 03708064A EP 1470001 B1 EP1470001 B1 EP 1470001B1
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  • the invention relates to a security element for objects in general and for value documents in particular, such as banknotes, credit cards.
  • the invention further relates to articles equipped with such a security element and to methods for producing the security element and the articles.
  • the articles may also be semi-finished products for further processing, for example unprinted banknote paper.
  • a multi-layer security element for security documents, banknotes and credit cards which combines a layer with embossed diffraction structures and a color-shift or Farbkipp bintik together.
  • Color shift effect is understood to mean the effect of the color change under different viewing angles.
  • Each of these two security features provides effective copy protection and has visually easy-to-test visual effects.
  • both security features are imitable only with great effort.
  • the optical effect of embossed holograms is greatly enhanced when viewing the diffractive structures in front of a reflective background, and the color-shift effects also appear particularly intense against a specularly reflective background.
  • WO 01/03945 A1 It is therefore proposed inter alia to combine the diffraction-structured layer and the color-shift effect layer with a common, reflective metal background layer.
  • This reflective metal background layer may additionally have magnetic properties, so that a further third magnetic security feature is integrated in the security element.
  • a problem with a reflective background coating with magnetic properties is the fact that magnetic materials usually have poor reflective properties. Those with acceptable reflection properties, in turn, have less pronounced magnetic properties.
  • a thin-film structure having a color-shift effect layer and a magnetic metal background coating of a cobalt-nickel alloy as a security element is proposed.
  • Such a background coating is said to have both acceptable reflection properties and good magnetic properties. Nonetheless, the reflection properties are not optimal.
  • WO-A-02/073250 discloses a security element having successive superposed layers of a magnetic layer, a reflective layer, and a color flip effect interference element.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide an improved multilayer security element with optimized, i. intense color shift effect or color shift effect and with simultaneously optimized magnetic properties to propose an article provided with such a security element and method for producing the security element and the article.
  • the multilayer security element has an interference layer structure which produces a color shift effect when the security element is viewed at different angles and a layer with magnetic properties.
  • the interference layer structure is composed of a multilayer interference element I and a reflection layer R.
  • the interference element, the reflection layer and the layer having magnetic properties are arranged such that the reflection layer lies between the interference element and the layer having the magnetic properties.
  • the reflective layer is usually a reflective metal layer.
  • the magnetic property layer and the reflective layer have recesses in the form of characters or patterns or codes.
  • the interference element is formed by superimposed absorber and dielectric layers, wherein a plurality of absorber and dielectric layers can be arranged alternately one above the other. Instead of alternating absorber and dielectric layers can also only dielectric layers can be provided, wherein adjoining layers have very different calculation indices, so that a color shift effect is generated. However, the use of absorber layers is advantageous because the color shift effects are more visible.
  • Optical interference coatings with color shift effect are widely known and are described in connection with security elements, for example in EP 0 395 410 B1 .
  • WO 01/03945 A1 and US 3,858,977 Their special feature is that they convey different color impressions at different viewing angles.
  • two, three, four or more different color effects depending on the viewing angle may occur.
  • the reflection and transmission properties of such color shift effect layers depend on several factors, in particular on the calculation indices, absorption coefficients and layer thicknesses as well as the number of layers of the layer structure.
  • the individual layers of the optical interference element as well as the reflective metal layer and the magnetic properties layer are applied to each other at least partially overlapping on a substrate, preferably vapor-deposited. It is essential that the reflective metal layer between the layer with magnetic properties and the interference element is arranged so that the reflective layer can exert its positive optical effect as a background to the interference element.
  • the multilayer security element can be applied to an article with or without the substrate, for example by hot-stamping. In the case of transfer without the substrate, the multilayer security element is produced on a substrate side, wherein the layer sequence substrate / interference element / reflective layer / magnetic layer or Substrate / magnetic layer / reflective layer / interference element can be. If the security element is applied to an object together with the substrate or integrated into an object, for example as a label on or as a window thread in a banknote, then the magnetic layer can also be present on the back side of the substrate.
  • the security element constructed according to the invention has a negative or positive writing by locally removing the reflection layer and the magnetic layer.
  • the font is preferably alphanumeric characters, but is not limited thereto.
  • For the purposes of the invention may be any representable characters, patterns or coding.
  • diffraction structures can be present on or in the substrate on which the layers are produced, or on or in a separate layer, for example an embossed lacquer layer.
  • the security element By locally removing the magnetic layer and the reflection layer, the security element becomes partially transparent or semitransparent, depending on the configuration of the individual layers, since the interference element is transparent or semitransparent.
  • translucency is meant translucency, ie a translucent security element has a light transmittance of less than 90%, preferably between 80% and 20%.
  • the security element according to the invention is particularly suitable for combination with diffraction structures for producing further color effects.
  • the diffraction structures are, for example, lattice structures, refraction patterns, reflection, transmission or volume holograms.
  • the diffraction structures can for example be present directly as embossings in the substrate carrying the layers, for example in the carrier material of a plastic thread, or else in an additional layer.
  • the additional layer may be e.g. to act a varnish layer.
  • the resulting color effects are based on a diffraction of the light on the embossed relief structures.
  • the most intense optical effect unfold such diffraction structures in front of a reflective metallic background.
  • the security element according to the invention already has a reflective metal layer, which can therefore readily serve as a reflective metallic background for the diffraction structure.
  • the metallic reflection layer can consist, for example, of aluminum, silver, nickel, platinum or palladium, preferably of aluminum or silver. Both materials are electrically conductive, so that the electrical conductivity of the security element can be considered as an additional security feature.
  • the layer structure with a color shift effect or color shift effect comprises a multilayer interference element I, a layer M with magnetic properties and a reflection layer R lying between the interference element I and the layer M with magnetic properties.
  • a security element 1 is applied in such a way to an object or integrated into an object that the interference element I is visually recognizable, that is facing the viewer.
  • any transparent or semitransparent layers may well still be provided above the interference element I or as intermediate layers.
  • the interference element I is in turn constructed in multiple layers and comprises at least two layers, namely according to the exemplary embodiment FIG. 1 an absorber layer A and an underlying dielectric layer D.
  • the physical effects of the individual layers within the interference layer structure which are fundamentally known to the person skilled in the art, consisting of reflection layers and interference elements in the production of the color shift effect are described, for example, in US Pat EP 0 395 410 B1 described.
  • the absorber layer A is typically a metal layer of materials such as chromium, iron, gold or titanium in a thickness of preferably 4 nm to 20 nm.
  • As absorber layer materials compounds such as nickel-chromium-iron, but also metals such as vanadium, palladium or Molybdenum can be used.
  • Suitable materials for the absorber layer are, for example in the WO 01/03945 A1 nickel, cobalt, tungsten, niobium, aluminum, metal compounds such as metal fluorides, oxides, sulfides, nitrides, carbides, phosphides, selenides, silicides and compounds thereof, but also carbon, germanium, cermet, Iron oxide.
  • the dielectric layer are mainly transparent materials with a low computation index n (n ⁇ 1, 7 ) into consideration, such as SiO 2 , MgF 2 , SiOx with 1 ⁇ x ⁇ 2 and Al 2 O 3 .
  • n n ⁇ 1, 7
  • SiO 2 , MgF 2 , SiOx with 1 ⁇ x ⁇ 2 and Al 2 O 3 n ⁇ 1, 7
  • SiO 2 , MgF 2 , SiOx with 1 ⁇ x ⁇ 2 and Al 2 O 3 Basically, almost all vapor-deposited, transparent compounds come into question, in particular also higher-refractive coating materials such as ZrO 2 , ZnS, TiO 2 and indium tin oxides (ITO).
  • ITO indium tin oxides
  • Other suitable for dielectric layers materials are for example in the WO 01/03945 A1 specified.
  • the layer thickness of the dielectric layer D is usually in the range of 100 nm to 1000 nm, preferably 200 nm to 500 nm.
  • dielectric instead of absorber layers A are used D, wherein the refractive index of adjoining dielectric layers D must be very different, that is, on the one hand n to cause a distinct color shift effect ⁇ 1, 7 and on the other hand, n> 1, 7,.
  • the reflection layer R is preferably a metal layer of silver or aluminum or another highly reflective metal.
  • the reflection layer R is of crucial importance for the desired color-shift effect. The better the reflection properties in the reflection layer R, the more noticeable is the color shift effect.
  • the magnetic properties layer M is preferably a magnetic metal layer of nickel, iron, cobalt or an alloy of said metals or an alloy of one of said metals with other materials, at least one of said three materials having a weight fraction of has at least 20%.
  • the thickness of the magnetic layer M is preferably between 10 nm and 1000 nm.
  • the material of the magnetic layer M may be selected to have the desired magnetic properties. In particular, coercive field strength and remanence properties can be optimally adjusted since the magnetic layer M has no reflection function for the interference element I.
  • the magnetic layer M may, for example, also be present as a coding, for example as a barcode, without the optical properties of the security element. Because the magnetic layer M is invisible to the viewer behind the reflective layer R. The optical properties and the magnetic properties of the security element are thus completely decoupled from each other by the presence of the reflective layer R.
  • All layers A, D, R, M are preferably produced in a vacuum vapor deposition method on a substrate, which can form part of the security element 1, but which can also serve only as an intermediate carrier and is removed at the latest when applying the security element on or in an object.
  • a vacuum deposition method is suitable for producing the layers, with a methodological group forming the Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) with Schiffchenbedampfung, evaporation by resistance heating and vapor deposition by induction heating. But also electron beam deposition, sputtering (DC or AC) and arc vapor deposition are possible.
  • the vapor deposition can also be carried out as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or by sputtering in the reactive plasma or any other plasma-assisted evaporation method.
  • CVD chemical vapor deposition
  • layers can also be printed, if possible.
  • the magnetic layer can be introduced into the layer structure using suitable printing inks.
  • FIGS. 2 to 6 various possible layer structures of a security element are shown, wherein a substrate S is arranged at different locations in the layer sequence IRM. Accordingly, the substrate S may be below or above the layers I, R, M ( FIGS. 2, 3, 5 ). However, it can also lie between the reflection layer R and the magnetic layer M ( FIG. 5 ). If the substrate is above the Interference element I ( FIG. 4 . 6 ), it is important that the substrate S is as transparent as possible or at least semitransparent so as not to adversely affect the intensity of the color shift effect.
  • the security element diffraction structures can be integrated particularly well, which are preferably integrated in the substrate S, but which may optionally be formed by a separate layer. In this case, the diffraction structures over the entire security element can extend over the entire area or be present only in some areas.
  • FIGS. 2, 4, 5 and 6 are embossed in a carrier film or in the substrate S diffraction structures 2.
  • the metal coating typically present in this context for intensifying the visual impression of the diffraction pattern is already embodied in the security element by the reflection layer R and therefore does not need to be provided separately.
  • An optimal visual impression of a reflection hologram is obtained when the reflection layer R is immediately adjacent to the diffraction structure 2, as in FIG FIG. 5 you can see.
  • the embossing process preferably takes place before the coating of the substrate S.
  • the magnetic layer M still lies between the reflection layer R and the embossed substrate S, as in FIG FIG. 2 shown, the optical quality decreases with increasing thickness of the magnetic layer M. In this case, it may be advantageous to emboss the diffraction structures in the metal-coated substrate surface.
  • the embossed relief structure can also be spaced from the reflective layer R, provided that the reflection layer R forms the background to the embossed relief structure 2, as in FIGS FIGS. 4 and 6 shown.
  • the visual impression of a reflection diffraction structure with a spaced reflective layer is less brilliant.
  • Fig. 3 shows one with Fig. 2 comparable layer structure, wherein between the substrate and the magnetic layer, a separate layer, here a lacquer layer L, is present, are embossed in the diffraction structures 2.
  • the embossed lacquer layer could alternatively also lie between the layers M and R or on the layer A.
  • diffraction structures can be introduced between all layers or on the outer sides of the outer layers, as long as the layer unit of interference element I and reflection layer R is not interrupted.
  • the diffraction structures are formed in the subsequently applied layers.
  • the present in the security element reflective metal layer R is interrupted according to the invention for generating a visible in transmitted light lettering, pattern or code, wherein the magnetic layer must be interrupted in the same area, so as not to hinder the transmitted light effect.
  • transparent or at least semitransparent plastic films are vapor-deposited over the whole area with a magnetic layer M and a reflection layer R.
  • the recesses in the form of the desired characters, patterns and coding are introduced by known methods (washing method, etching, spark erosion).
  • the washing method is used, in which the carrier material is first printed with wash ink in the desired pattern. Subsequently, the vapor deposition of the reflective layer and magnetic layer takes place.
  • the layers lying above the wash paint are also removed, so that a recess is produced at this point.
  • Numerous methods for generating the characters and patterns are familiar to the person skilled in the art.
  • the reflective layer R and the magnetic layer M can also be applied separately and etched or washed separately, for example if the recesses in the magnetic layer M are to have a size deviating from the characters, patterns or codes in the reflective layer R.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8th This is exemplary in the FIGS. 7 and 8th on a security element with a layer structure according to FIG. 4 shown.
  • the interference element I is vapor-deposited and adjacent to the interference element I first the reflection layer R and then the magnetic layer M.
  • the reflection layer R has recesses 20 in the form of a repetitive lettering "PL", such as in FIG. 8 to see.
  • the recesses 10 in the magnetic layer M are substantially larger than the recesses 20 in the reflective layer R and form a magnetic bar code 11, as also in FIG Fig. 8 to see.
  • the code can be seen in the positive or negative patterns, ie in the magnetic regions or the recesses.
  • FIG. 8 shows an intermediate product 100 in plan view for producing numerous security elements 1 in the form of security threads 200 with the cross section shown in Figure 7.
  • the recesses 20 in the form of characters "PL" can be seen through the interference element I and the transparent carrier material or substrate S.
  • FIG. 8 shown intermediate product 100 is separated in a subsequent process step along the dividing lines 101 to form security threads 200 for storage in eg banknotes.
  • the characters formed by the recesses 20 in the reflective layer R character "PL" are barely recognizable in incident light in a stored in a banknote security thread in reflected light, in transmitted light, however, perceived as negative writing.
  • Security threads with the in the FIGS. 7 and 8th described construction are particularly suitable for use as window security thread, which is stored in a document so that it is at least locally directly visible or appears on the surface.
  • FIG. 9 The example of a cross section through a banknote 300 shown method for embedding the security thread 200 in the paper under windowing in the security thread area are eg in the DE-A-36 01114 described.
  • the diffraction structure or reflection pattern is predominantly visible when viewed in incident light in the window region, whereas when viewed in transmitted light, the negative inscription present in the metal coating dominates. In both cases, the color shift effect caused by the interference layer structure remains perceptible.
  • the security element according to the invention optimally combines three security features with one another, namely on the one hand a color-shift effect in combination with an optimally reflecting metal layer whose electrical conductivity forms a second security feature, and finally a magnetic security feature. its properties can be optimally adjusted without negatively affecting the other security features.
  • security features can be combined with the security element according to the invention, for example by partially removing the magnetic layer to form a coding, for example a barcode, and by combining with diffraction structures, in particular in the form of an embossed structure, preferably adjacent to the reflection layer R.
  • a preferred field of application of the security element according to the invention has already been mentioned above as a security thread, in particular as a machine-readable magnetic hologram window security thread with a color shift effect and negative writing.
  • the security element can also be glued as a strip or surface element on an object, in particular a security, preferably a banknote, or be transferred in any other way with or without the substrate, for example in a hot-stamp process, to an object.

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EP03708064A 2002-01-18 2003-01-17 Sicherheitselement mit Farbkippeffekt und magnetischen Eigenschaften sowie Verfahren zur Herstellung Revoked EP1470001B1 (de)

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